Franz Lidz
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Oscar De La Hoya is diversifying his still-strong boxing career into promoting fights as well, writes contributing editor Franz Lidz. “His management style is not unlike his presence in the ring,” Lidz says. “He’s on top of everything.” De La Hoya now faces a dilemma, Lidz believes: “He really wants to retire, but he realizes that he’s got to prolong his career to maintain his edge over other promoters.”

Sheelah Kolhatkar
New York
This fall, as Michael Bloomberg mounted a campaign to extend term limits and run for mayor of New York City for the third time, staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar explored a class-action suit against his company. “Bloomberg is a complex guy,” Kolhatkar says. “He’s an impressively competent manager of New York City, but the history of women at his company tells a different story.” Kolhatkar wrote for the October issue about Harbinger Capital, the hedge fund with the largest outside stake in the New York Times Co.

Jesse Eisinger
New York
In his analysis of how the hedge fund industry fell so far so fast amid Wall Street’s general chaos, senior writer Jesse Eisinger calls the funds’ vaunted management skills a mirage. “These hedge fund guys were supposed to be so brilliant, when really what many were doing was just running with the bulls,” he says. Eisinger wrote for the November issue about J.P. Morgan’s role in the financial crisis.

Rob Howard
New York
For this month’s Full Disclosure interview, photographer Rob Howard was delighted that his subject, Donald Trump Jr., was willing to go fly-fishing in a Central Park pond to provide the perfect shot. “Donald showed up in an impeccably tailored bespoke suit,” Howard says. “He just threw it on the ground and got on the gear and went into the water.”

Matt Mahurin
New York
Artist Matt Mahurin created an offbeat illustration of a woman under siege to accompany Sheelah Kolhatkar’s report on alleged discrimination at Bloomberg. “To be able to do an image that you feel has the impact of the words, so they’re tied together, is really satisfying,” he says. Mahurin photographed the April cover, a conceptual depiction of power in the workplace.

Michael Lewis
New York
To make sense of how Wall Street melted down on such a massive scale, contributing editor Michael Lewis found traders who located the root of the crisis before anyone else—and profited handsomely. “To take the positions they took, they had to think independently, and they really were a little island,” Lewis says. “It was like being a sane man in an insane world.” For the October issue, Lewis wrote about moving his family into a sumptuous New Orleans mansion that was far beyond their means.